Six Degrees. (A.K.A., Who the heck is Kevin Bacon?)

[UselessTriviaMan]

I think it's time for the Six Degrees game to arrive on the scene. For those who don't know how it works, the rules are simple:

1. Pick any two movie actors.
2. Using movies that they've been in and costars they've had, connect the two in six movies or less. (Just to make it clear, you can't use TV shows, made-for-TV movies, or straight-to-video flicks. Some people include television, but that just means that EVERYONE is connected via The Simpsons. And since it's my thread, I'm setting the no-TV rule.)

Example: Ashton Kutcher to Bill Murray.

Ashton Kutcher was in Butterfly Effect with Amy Smart.
Amy Smart was in Road Trip with Tom Green.
Tom Green was in Charlie's Angels with Bill Murray.

That one only took three connections, but you can use up to six if you need 'em.

Also, I know there are a couple of search engines out there online that'll actually make the connections for you. Aside from the fact that they usually include TV shows, they're not in the spirit of the game. If you have to use a search engine to come up with the answer, you probably shouldn't even try to play.

All that said, I'll throw out the first pitch. I'll even lob an easy one out there for you.


Connect Dan Ackroyd to Nicole Kidman.

[Tripitaka]

A similar thing has been tried before and it died an absolute death:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=664555&highlight=kevin+bacon#664555

So hopefully this won't go the same way!

Anyway...

Dan Ackroyd was in Evolution with Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore was in Magnolia with Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise was in Eyes Wide Shut with Nicole Kidman


Next connect Jessica Tandy to Ben Kingsley

[UselessTriviaMan]

Ms Tandy was in Driving Miss Daisy with Dan Aykroyd
and Aykroyd was in Sneakers with Ben Kingsley


Owen Wilson to Robert Redford

[Tripitaka]

Owen Wilson was in The Royal Tenenbaums with Luke Wilson
Luke Wilson was in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle with Demi Moore
Demi Moore was in Indecent Proposal with Robert Redford


Cary Grant to Arnold Shwarzennegger

[Syzygy]

Cary Grant was in An Affair to Remember with Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr was in the non-Daniel Craig Casino Royale with David Niven
David Niven was in Around the World in Eighty Days and Arnold Shwarzennegger was also in Around the World in Eighty Days.

(I know it's not the same Around the World in 80 Days, but the titles are the same.)

Jackie Chan to... Nathan Fillion.

[Incandenza]

Jackie Chan was in Shanghai Noon with Lucy Liu.
Lucy Liu was in Kill Bill with Vivica A. Fox
Vivica A. Fox was in Independence Day with Adam Baldwin
Adam Baldwin was in Serenity with Nathan Fillion

That actually ended up being way more elegant than I thought it would.

Okay: Sasha Baron Cohen and Sir Richard Attenborough. This ought to be interesting.

[UselessTriviaMan]

Sasha Baron Cohen was in Talladega Nights with Will Ferrell
Will was in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery with Seth Green
Seth was in Rat Race with Wayne Knight
and Wayne was in Jurassic Park with Sir Richard Attenborough


John Wayne to Johnny Knoxville.

[mandalorian2298]

Jackie Chan was in Around the world in 80 days with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Batman and Robin with Vivica J. Fox
Vivica J. Fox was in Independence Day with Adam Baldwin
Adam Baldwin was in Serenity with Nathan Fillion.

Fast-posted.

[The1exile]

uber fastposted

[Incandenza]

Yours wasn't too bad, mandy. Funny that we both used Independence Day.

Anyway...
John Wayne was in El Dorado with James Caan.
James Caan was in The Godfather with Al Pacino.
Al Pacino was in The Recruit with Bridget Moynihan.
Bridget Moynihan was in I Robot with Will Smith.
Will Smith was in Men in Black 2 with Johnny Knoxville.

Hmmmmm, how about William Holden and Seann William Scott?

[UselessTriviaMan]

William Holden was in Bridge on the River Kwai with Sir Alec Guinness
Alec was in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope with Carrie Fisher
and Carrie Fisher was the hairy-bush nun in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back with Seann William Scott



Enterprising captains: Patrick Stewart to Scott Bakula

[Incandenza]

Nice one, UTM.

Patrick Stewart was in X-Men with Halle Berry.
Halle Berry was in Perfect Stranger with Bruce Willis.
Bruce Willis was in Color of Night with Scott Bakula.

Let's try..... Stephen Root to Dolph Lungren.

[Gold Knight]

Wow, you guys are really good at this, i havent gotten even close to any of these...

[UselessTriviaMan]

It takes a certain kind of movie geek to really appreciate this game, Gold Knight.

Stephen Root was in Office Space with John C. McGinley
McGinley was in Platoon with Charlie Sheen
Sheen was in The Chase with Henry Rollins
and Rollins was in Johnny Mnemonic with Dolph Lundgren


Game show hosts: Bob Barker to Richard Dawson

[Incandenza]

The amusing thing is that, with few exceptions, any Barker-to-Dawson connection will have the exact same beginning and ending points.

Bob Barker was in Happy Gilmore with Carl Weathers
Carl Weathers was in Predator with the Governator.
The Governator was in Running Man with Richard Dawson.

So if we're going with themes, how about chicks with improbably hot asses: Ellen Page to Kate Beckinsale.

[vtmarik]

Meh.

Ellen Page was in X-Men 3: The Last Stand with Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman was in Van Helsing with Kate Beckinsale

Next: Fairuza Balk to Tom Hanks

[Incandenza]

Should thought more about the question and less about hot ass, I guess.

Fairuza Balk was in American History X with Ed Norton
Ed Norton was in The Score with De Niro
De Niro was in Heat with Mykelti Williamson
Mykelti was in Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks

How about.... Eva Green to Karen Allen

[Tripitaka]

Hope Eva Green is who I think she is, otherwise this is going to be all wrong, but I'm hoping....

Eva Green was in Casino Royale with Dame Judi Dench
Judie was in A Room With A View with Denholm Elliot
Denny boy was in Raiders Of The Lost Ark with Karen Allen



Gregory Peck to Salma Hayek

[UselessTriviaMan]

Tripitaka, there's nothing wrong with checking yourself. I freely admit I had to look up Gregory Peck (I was actually gonna see who else was in To Kill a Mockingbird, but discovered that he was also in the 1991 remake of Cape Fear). Once I find a costar reference I can work from, I'll stop with the imdb-ing and work the rest out in my head. But that's just me - I don't think it'd be cheating to use imdb to look up answers, as long as you don't use a search engine to find the answers for you.

That said, Gregory Peck was in Cape Fear with Robert DeNiro
DeNiro was in Men of Honor with Charlize Theron
Charlize was in Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck
and Affleck was in Dogma with Salma 'Honeybuns' Hayek


Bruce Campbell to Bruce Boxleitner

[Tripitaka]

Tripitaka, there's nothing wrong with checking yourself. I freely admit I had to look up Gregory Peck (I was actually gonna see who else was in To Kill a Mockingbird, but discovered that he was also in the 1991 remake of Cape Fear). Once I find a costar reference I can work from, I'll stop with the imdb-ing and work the rest out in my head. But that's just me - I don't think it'd be cheating to use imdb to look up answers, as long as you don't use a search engine to find the answers for you.

That said, Gregory Peck was in Cape Fear with Robert DeNiro
DeNiro was in Men of Honor with Charlize Theron
Charlize was in Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck
and Affleck was in Dogma with Salma 'Honeybuns' Hayek


Bruce Campbell to Bruce Boxleitner

Well that's just as well then since I couldn't fit a face to the name in the case of Mr. Boxleitner, but now I Know who he is and what he's been in, the rest is a piece of cake:

Bruce Campbell was in Spiderman 3 with Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire was in Seabiscuit with Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels was in Gods and Generals with Bruce Boxleitner

So lets try the gorgeous Gael García Bernal to Marilyn Monroe


Oh and an even quicker way From Gregory Peck to Ms Hayek, which I only realised after I'd posted, is via Cape Fear (Juliet Lewis) to From Dusk Till Dawn

[Sackett58]

Gael Garrcia Bernal was in Babel with Brad Pitt
Pitt was in Thelma & Louise with Susan Sarandon
Sarandon was in Lorenzo's Oil with Peter Ustinov
Ustinov was in Sparticus with Tony Curtis
Curtis was in Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe


Let's try Sean Penn to Gary Cooper

[Tripitaka]

Sean Penn was in 21 Grams with Benicio Del Toro
BDT was in The Usual Suspects with Suzy Amis
Suzy Amis was in Blown Away with Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges was in High Noon with Gary Cooper

Greta Garbo to Barbara Hershey

[UselessTriviaMan]

oooOOOOoooo... a toughie!!

I'm sure there's a faster way, but here's what I came up with.
Greta Garbo was in Mata Hari with Lionel Barrymore
Barrymore was in Key Largo with Lauren Bacall
Bacall was in Misery with Kathy Bates
Bates was in About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson
Nicholson was in Batman with Kim Basinger
and Basinger was in The Natural with Barbara Hershey


Sports figures: Terry Bradshaw to Reggie Jackson

[Incandenza]

Wow, I actually had to find out what movies Terry Bradshaw had even been in...

Terry Bradshaw was in Failure to Launch with Matthew McConaghy
McConaghy was in A Time to Kill with Sam Jackson
Sam Jackson was in Pulp Fiction with Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman was in My Super Ex-Girlfriend with Anna Faris
Anna Faris was in Scary Movie 3 with Leslie Neilsen
Leslie Neilsen was in Naked Gun with Reggie Jackson

I'm sure that could be way cleaner, but I'm at work, so I don't have too long to dick around with it...

New pairing: Howie Long to Franke Potente.

[UselessTriviaMan]

Howie Long was in Broken Arrow with Christian Slater
Slater was in Interview With the Vampire with Tom Cruise
Cruise was in Vanilla Sky with Penelope Cruz
and Penelope was in Blow with Franka Portente



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